Udo Voigt, leader of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany from 1996 to 2011, has become the partys first member to enter the European Parliament. The son of a Nazi SA assault division member, Voigt, 62, was the chief candidate for the extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), which scored one percent in the German vote for the EU-wide election on Sunday. Three years after being found guilty in 2004 of promoting Nazism after he called Hitler a great man, Voigt questioned the number of Holocaust deaths and demanded the return of German land lost after World War II. He also received a four-month suspended jail sentence for inciting violence after calling in a 1998 campaign speech for voters to engage in armed combat. And in 2011 the NPD stirred controversy again, with posters depicting Voigt, on his motorbike, wearing a black leather jacket, with the motto Gas geben (Step on It) or literally give gas in what some saw as a reference to gas chambers where millions of Jews perished in Nazi extermination camps. The signs were put up around Berlin, including just across from the capitals Jewish Museum.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 10:27:26 +0000
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